Example sentences for: stale

How can you use “stale” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • From what I've been told, the attorney is the one who advised him to get a new driver's license in 1995 when a survey of his public records uncovered a stale but nevertheless incriminating trail for an overly eager reporter to follow," he said, pausing occasionally to spit tobacco juice into the ever-present Styrofoam cup.

  • Dissenters find the novel's transgressive bent a touch stale, but the pack praises it.

  • The aging analysts packed into the auditorium, sweating through their dark clothes in the September heat wave (only a small desk fan recycled the stale air), would have confirmed the Berkeley English professor and professional Freud-basher's darkest suspicions about psychoanalysis as a cult of personality.

  • As his ideas grew familiar and then stale, he found no way to complicate them, develop them, or move on to something else.

  • The purpose is to guarantee defendants' Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial and to ensure that they will not have to defend themselves against stale evidence.


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